
Haunted_User
Iโm a bit rusting on mafia but wouldnโt it be better to boot out an afk person
Instead on putting pressure on a person who does talk
Even if they are a power role, whatโs the point of having power if your not going to use it
In theory, speaking, your trail of thought isn't wrong, I agree, an AFK person can be a better vote at the end of the day, yep.
But you have to see that we've got a lot of time to use, yeah?
Now most of it is already over, but the point I'm making still stands.
During the day, you can change your vote, until the day ends, so with that in mind, you could also stop changing it whenever you want.
If you consider that, then that means you can vote someone, but change your mind later.
For your initial vote, you usually want to either, if you have no real suspicions, just vote someone you know will have a response, or, if its a later day like D2 and D3, ofc not on the last day, vote someone you already suspect to some degree.
For changing your mind you usually have 3 reasons, but are ofc not limited to it.
#1 The person you initially voted on that day had a reaction you considered "good" or "townie". In which case, voting someone else, who you also had suspicions on, to see how they'd react, makes sense.
#2 You voted the player mostly to get a reaction, even though you weren't actually suspecting them, for example, you think they might be town, but would like to see their reaction anyway, to reassure yourself. In which case, once you got the reaction, you just switch your vote. I sometimes do this, to have more points to use when explaining why I think someone is town. As the more points you have, the easier it is to convince everyone else, usually.
#3 You're pretty certain they're evil, but there's still a lot of time in the day, so it makes little sense to just keep your vote where it is. Instead, you change it to your lesser suspicions, to get more information from those other players. After all, you can always go back to that other person that you're already pretty certain is evil later in the day, before it ends.
While doing all of this, and I am pretty chaotic as a player, you don't necessarily have to keep everyone updated on why you voted a player, although I can't recommend it, I sometimes say I voted someone for one reason, even though it was another, same for changing my vote. So sometimes I say I vote someone because I think they're evil, even though it was #2 and I thought they're townie. It's also to keep mafia guessing for a wee bit, if I seem to have wrong reads, perhaps I'll live for a wee bit longer, or if I seem to scumread those other players, maybe they get to live longer. If I'm feeling bold, I sometimes say I scumread my PR reads.
Either way, voting the dead-inactive first off the bat isn't a great idea, because it won't get you anywhere.
Such a player should rather be seen as something you flip to at the end of the day, if everyone else doesn't seem to be a great vote that day, but this, you can only really conclude if you interacted with them before!